The HSE Framework That Protects Your Licence to Operate
A well incident does not just cost money. It costs operating licences, regulator relationships, community trust and — in the worst cases — the lives of the people working for you. The HSE and risk management framework around a well programme is not overhead: it is the mechanism that keeps all of those things intact when something does not go to plan.
SPD provides onshore and offshore HSE consultancy and risk management services for well operations. Our HSE specialists are engineers who understand what is happening in the wellbore — which means their hazard identification is grounded in operational reality, not just process documentation.
Our HSE and Risk Management Services
- HazID and HAZOP facilitation: systematic, operationally-grounded hazard identification for well operations
- Well-specific risk assessment and barrier-based bow-tie analysis
- Well control philosophy review and kick tolerance verification
- Emergency response plan development and exercise facilitation
- Regulatory application HSE content preparation and submission management
- Contractor and vendor HSE auditing prior to and during mobilisation
- Management of Change (MOC) framework design and implementation
- Incident investigation and structured root cause analysis
- HSE KPI development, monitoring framework and performance reporting
- Permit to Work system design and compliance audit
The Value of Integrated HSE and Engineering
A risk assessment written by an HSE professional who does not understand the well design is a checklist. A risk assessment written by an engineer who also understands the HSE framework is a tool — one that identifies the risks that actually matter for this specific well, and recommends controls that can actually be implemented by the team that will be drilling it.
SPD’s integrated capability — well engineering and HSE in the same team — means the risk picture we build for your well programme is technically complete. Nothing important is missed because the HSE advisor and the well engineer were working in separate silos.
Track Record
Zero recordable safety incidents across our managed well programmes. A structured approach to pre-well risk assessment and well control contingency planning that ensures every member of the rig team enters operations with a clear, well-specific hazard picture and a tested response framework — not a generic procedure adapted from the last well.